The New Popular Front alliance looked like the best hope the left had against Macron and Le Pen. But after months of internal conflicts, it’s on the brink of collapse.
This was due to fail, as it incorporated everything from the centre-left to the far-left. Plus, there are figures that don’t want to make compromises like Mélenchon.
It might’ve also been because of Mélenchon that NFP lost its chances of working with the centre(-right). On the other hand the alliance’s great share made it possible to balance the far-right.
There is no working with the “center” / center-right, they proved that again and again and again, they have not made a single compromise while constantly complaining that the left doesn’t want to work with them. Working with someone means both sides give something to the other, and the right only ever takes and never gives anything. They have to learn to play ball.
I was thinking more as compromises to each other within the alliance. I was hoping as well that Macron, Renaissance would try to work with the left. What is happening now is that they are upholding the status-quo that obviously is losing its support. I fear it to escalade to the far-right because of this stance, I hope it does not.
The “reasonable left”, the PS, wants to say that they still play ball, that they can be part of a government, that they’re not here to destroy the country, that they can work to keep the institutions working. But they never get any compromise going in their favor, and when they say “see, we tried” it’s already too late, and nothing they do gets anywhere, after they’ve killed anything the actual left tries.
This is not reasonable. This is collaboration. We have proof of where that goes with the Democrats in the US. Only the right wing calls them reasonable because they allow the right to pass everything they want. Reasonable means you sign off on everything and get nothing.
Many European democracies are rather different than the one in the US, though. They harbour the possibility for more than two relevant parties. The Democrats hold such a varied spectrum of opinions and views that it could consitute of three or four parties in itself, but they communicate as one. So I think it is difficult to really make assumptions from US politics that could be easily copy-pasted on most of the political systems in European countries.
In recent years the left was quite insignificant in France, but now they hold some cards. Especially since RN is widely considered unreasonable. It is a delicate situation, maybe the left could now have some demands if the government sees a necessity for them, but so far the government has just managed to get through with their plans (with some dubious shortcuts). I doubt making the government collapse and forcing new elections will help much. Especially now that security is an important aspect, which often is not a strong platform for left wing parties (as voters make assumptions)(also since LFI wants France to leave NATO). And what does the left do if they are in the lead to form a government, but no other parties are willing to form a government out of spite?
Is that a different group to the “Alliance of popular fronts” and the “Popular new front alliance”?
Some places translated it as popular new front instead of new popular front? That’s missing the point of the claim that it’s reviving the old popular front from the 1930s.
Macron? Left?
I think it’s saying the left going against macron, not that macron is left
Leftist infighting? A tale as old as time.
